This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... OF SItA'BOTt Down a great hollow in the hills, under banks that are hung with ferns and lingering foxgloves, with goldenrod and harebells, and all the flowers of the late summer, rushes a swift mountain stream. Here it chafes among boulders that were shaped and rounded and, it may be, strewn here by the glaciers that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... OF SItA'BOTt Down a great hollow in the hills, under banks that are hung with ferns and lingering foxgloves, with goldenrod and harebells, and all the flowers of the late summer, rushes a swift mountain stream. Here it chafes among boulders that were shaped and rounded and, it may be, strewn here by the glaciers that have left their mark along the wall now it loiters through a silver lake set round with reeds and lilies, the haunt of the wild duck and the heron; and now it plunges headlong over a rocky steep beneath a white mist of foam. Its troubled waters bear no barges to the sea; no mill-wheel flashes in its whirling stream--a turbulent, untamed, headstrong river. In the brief harvest weather, when the hay was down on the meadow by its shore, the dwindling torrent sank into its channel until the broken threads of silver seemed to creep along among the boulders as if fearing to be seen. Bars of grey shingle checked its feeble flow. The trout were crowded in its clear, still pools. a Then one night there came a lurid sunset, an angry sky, long plumes of ominous cloud. The morning dawned in stainless splendour, a sunrise of promise all too fair. Clouds began to settle on the crest of Siabod. Masses of grey vapour rolling down broke in great sheets of rain that stalked like phantoms through the valley. All day the tempest grew. Each rivulet along the mountain side swells into an angry torrent, and from the cliff that overhangs the hollow once more "the wild cataract leaps in glory." And now, exulting in the added strength of all its hundred turbulent vassals, the river rises in its might. The old stepping-stones are knee-deep under a rushing flood. Over giant boulders, seething and struggling, roars the furious stream. And when at last the stormy...
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